NameStamp — Namecoin Time-Stamping

With Namecoin, you can
time-stamp
data securely and in a fully decentralised fashion (just set a name
to your data's hash as its value). In contrast to
Bitcoin, Namecoin is designed to hold arbitrary
data and thus no
"hack"
is required to do just that. However, one may argue
that Bitcoin is actually the most secure way
to time-stamp anything. But due to
merge
mining, one does not even have to compromise on either usability or
security: Data stamped in the Namecoin blockchain will be linked
to a Bitcoin block in the near future.

NameStamp is a utility to extract and highlight
this link. It can be used to create a cryptographic proof that
some data from Namecoin is linked to a certain Bitcoin block. With this
proof, the link can be verified without any need to access Namecoin at all.
For more information about time-stamping in general, why it may be
useful, and how this all works, see my
blog post
or the
project's
README file.